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Season’s Bliss

• Give your spare coins freely to homeless people • Buy hat and mittens for a poor child • Give to Amnesty International or another worthy charity; the one that gives most money to its clients and least to its CEOs is the Salvation Army) • Visit a homeless shelter • Knit socks for a soldier • Take a child to a museum or a zoo – don’t buy anything to eat since the event is what you are showing the child • Visit a nursing home, caroling • Collect money and donate it to an, preferably not to the rich city organizations, but to a rural needy one • Find inexpensive unusual gifts, preferably from Third-World places • Wrap your presents in newspaper – or don’t wrap at all • Cook a healthy meal for a neighbor who is house-bound • Read a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza story for the children in • For people who have everything already: Make named gifts to charities • Bring toys to a collection place that serves underprivileged children; stick to old-fashioned wooden toys, dolls and board games • Bake some gluten-free low-sugar cookies and serve them to every visitor this time of the year, including the mailman • Come up with at least three more ideas than I did – and tell us! Read More 
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